[kylehotchkiss]

I second this. I'm not a full vegetarian or especially an advocate, but I decided 8 years ago to stop eating red meat and my health has worked out just fine. It's very possible to live a full life without consuming beef and pork, and while it's harder to cut chicken out, I personally believe cows perceive their situations more clearly than chickens. Additional benefit: this automatically removes most processed meats from your diet.

[fakedang]

Cattle meat is by far one of the most energy dense sources of nutrition, and if done right societally, one of the most efficient too. The issue is that the US (and most of the developing world) does it wrong by adopting factory farming to mass produce meat and destroy ecosystems within a few decades.

If you're eating cattle/red meat, do it right - buy fresh, don't touch frozen and always go for grassfed. That itself makes it much safer than eating chicken (which is more likely to be factory-farmed) or eating fish (which is more prone to chemical contamination these days).

[positr0n]

What happens when you freeze meat that you want to avoid?

[fakedang]

I didn't quite understand your statement. I was referring to store-bought frozen meat, as they're usually teeming with nitrates, benzoates and other chemical preservatives.

[positr0n]

Oh I see, so it's not the freezing process. Freezing is just a proxy for other bad stuff?